Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-09-22
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

sition has been postponed from September
Is to Monday, September IS, at the re-
quest of exhibitors.
Two car loads of polished woods from
South America have arrived in Kansas
City for the approaching exhibition there
d. McCool, president of the st. Joseph
& Grand Island railroad, denies the sta te
ment that the Grand Island has been sold
to the Santa Fee. He also denies that the
Grand Island had sold it's interest in the
terminal company.
The last deck span on the Rulo fridge
over which the Burlington & Missouri
River railroad is to cross the Missouri
river and enter st. Joseph, has been fin.
ished. The contractors for the erection OF
the iron work have raised the false work
to be used for the last through span. A
few of the bars for the last neck span have
not yet arrived, which will postpone the
opening of the bridge until October 1.
Mary Collins, widow, forty-two years
old, keeping afurnished-room house in st.
Louis, ended her life few days ago by
taking four grains of morphine. A ply.
stefan was called in, but he declared it was
too late to do any thing for her, and the
woman was removed to the Protestant
Hospital, where she died in a few hours.
Family troubles are supposed to have
caused the rash act.
There are $3.50 pensioners in Missouri
and they get every quarter from the Gov.
eminent $4S3, 273.36.
The factory of the Joseph Peters Furni-
ture Company in st. Louis was destroyed
by fire few nights ago.
The headquarters of the st. Louis Fair
Association has been one of the busiest
places in the city lately, the Office being
crowded with applicants for space, clerks
replying to communications and making
entries for exhibitors. Upwards of 1,0N
entries were made in one day last week.
Thomas Burke, laborer, aged fifty-five
years, died at his home in Kansas City a
few days ago. His friends say his death
was caused by being kicked by a police
man who was trying to arrest him.
A reunion of the survivors of the First
Missouri Infantry, late the First Missouri
Light Artillery, Blair's old regiment, will
be held at Hyde Park, or some suitable
point in st. Louis. Immediately after the
grand parade on the 9th.
The United States Court at jefferson
City has adjourned. Judge Krekel de-
ferred sentence of the convicted Bald
Knobbers till the November special term
of court. All the Bald-Knobbers are in
Jail.
The Lexington City Council has ordered
an election on the question of local option.
setting October Is as the date. The dis
cussion of this measure, from which all
personalities were to be eliminated, is be-
coming quite heated, and the atmosphere
is taking on tint of cerulean blue.
By the fall of a pile of lumber in the
street railway engine-house in Kansas
City few days ago, six men were severely
injured. Their names are: John Fl. Ken
nett, John Logan, w. III. Smith, James
Good, L. W. Whitsitt and Isaac Werner.
Thomas Durkin, river man, thirty five
years of age, was fined 500 aud sent to
the work-house by Judge Cady, in st.
Louis, on charge of brutality beating his
aged father and mother. In addition to
beating his mother, the evidence showed
that he called her the vilest names mag
Unable, and closed his performance by hit
ting her on the head with a brick.
A magnificent exhibit in the horse line
at the st. Louis fair will be the entry of
fifty-six Percherons, all owned by one
breeder. This will be the largest display
of Percherons ever made by one man at
any fair in the country. Of the $50 stalls
for the ring-show horses, all but fifty of
them have been taken, and the prospects
are that at least hundred more stalls will
he required.
Among the numerous attractions Of
fered by st. Louis for the entertainment
of her visitors during the carnival season
is the gorgeous pyrotechnic representa-
ton of the destruction of the Pompeii by
the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. It is given
in a monster Enclosure specially con-
structed, in which is erected appropriate
scenic effects, which, at night when it is
Illuminated with electric lights, give
startling and realistic effects. 1t is de-
scribed by the st. Louis press as the most
interesting spectacle of the kind ever pre-
sented in that city. It's production is due
to the enterprise of the management of
company having invested over $4,000 in
its preparation.
The monotony at the State capital was
broken a few days ago when about twenty
of Contractor Mulcahy's men struck on
him for an advance in wages. The men
who struck were exclusively laborers.
They were receiving $1.25 per day, and be-
coming dissatisfied with that amount they
struck for $1.50. Mr.. Mulcahy refused to
accede to their demands, and they were
paid off aud discharged.
Sam Goodin and Levi Roody, both col
ored, became involved in a quarrel about a
woman in Kansas City few days ago,
when Goodin drew large revolver and
fired at Roody. The bullet struck him on
the center of the breast bone, knocking
him down, but did not pass through his
body. Instead it glanced along the bone
and passed out without doing any serious
damage.
A shabbily attired man about so years
of age, with black chin whiskers and mus
tache, and walking on crutches, started
across the st. Louis bridge from the ST.
T ir e.
he reached the middle of the channel he
grasped the iron railing and, throwing
aside his crutches, clambered to the top.
He paused for a few moments. and then
precipitated himself headlong into the
river, and was drowned.
The Third regiment Of A. o. u. w. of
Missouri met in st. Joseph last week for
the third annual parade: l65 knights ap-
peared in line and paraded the principal
streets. At meeting of the arran gement
committee it was decided to hold a jubilee
meeting of the order in st. Joseph between
the 10th and goth of June, 1885, The fol-
lowing companies will be represented:
Atchison, Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton,
Caldwell, DeKalb, Daviess, Gentry, Har-
rison, Nodaway, Holt and Worth.
st. Louis has her fall fixiDs on.
James Burbridge, aged twenty-eight,
alighted from cable car at Kansas City
a few days ago, just as car from the op.
posite direction was passing, and was
badly injured about the head, arms and
spine, and his physicians regard his case
as critical.
The grangers and farmers of Clay Coun-
ty held a picnic and agricultural and hor-
ticultural display at Walnut Grove few
days ago. Prominent speakers were pres
emit. Among them were J. 81. Brigham,
master of the State Grange of Ohio, aud